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So this will be a holding pattern till more parts arrive. My body (AE SC8) is actually sitting at the post office i just found out so i will have it tomorrow, and i can start figuring out a way to widen the body mounts.

What wheel hexes are those?
I am hoping to build one of these and want to run 1/8 buggy Badlands.
thanks

Im convinced now that running Mod1 gears on the conversion builds is problematic at best... They definitely mount "wider" than the Mod 0.8 gears. Twice now i have installed mod1 gearing on my ERBE builds (this and my ERBEgt) and twice now the Mod1 Spur rubs on the ERBE gear cover. I thought i did something wrong the first time and had something backwards or something silly. Took it apart and reassembled a few times to no avail.

Now the problem is fixed one of 2 ways, finding proper Mod 0.8 gearing to work with the SC tires or 1/8 buggy tires. Or chopping a bunch out of the gear cover (which i did on the ERBEgt) or running without the gear cover completely. Not my idea of keeping stuff out of there.

Its really funny because the 2 spur gears side by side don't look any different in width.

What ERBE mod 0.8 gearing could i run to equalize what i would end up with running 20/40 Mod1 (bang on 50mph with my setup). Is there a calculator to make these conversions? or do i just need to play around with the scriptasylum sheet and find something?

I am going to try mine today with 22t pinion and 56t spur mod 0.8. I will be running 4s and my 2200kv castle. I may be able to get a 24t pinion and 54t spur. I tried a 50t spur and 20t pinion but I the motor plate slot will need some fileing.

Totally depends how you do it.
This method (built from scratch on the ERBE chassis) if i added everything up im probably into it for right around $200-250 for all the parts i bought from both the LHS and ebay. And I'm going to be using my power system from my ERBE-gt, if i didn't have that add another $250-300 for the 1/8 BL esc.

If you have a Slayer Pro, and you convert it via the Tekno conversion kit you will spend $129 (i think, didn't look to be sure, maybe less but i don't recall spending any more than that when i converted my first Revo) for the conversion kit alone, and then add your choice of 1/8 electric systems, batteries etc...

Not cheap by any means, but if its an E-Slayer you want and not a Slash 4x4 you gotta pay one way or another.

nice looking truck! yea i'm just getting around to either convert my slayer pro to electric or just buy blank erevo chassis and build one from scratch. it'll prob be the truck i save my proline flo body for once those finally come in.

Right now i just have stock Slayer Pro 4x4 springs. changed the fluid out to 40wt.
Im gonna run it and see how i like it, when i had my sc8 i loved how it was really low, acted like a SC you see on TV, nice and low till it went airborne and the tires just seemed to fall away to soak up all the bump on landing. But there you have the vertical shocks. And for as cool as the Revo based rocker suspension is, it just cant handle the same style. My losi8 buggy i can drop it from 4-5 feet in the air and the chassis doesn't touch on landing. The upright shocks absorb landing so much better.

Ill see how it is, and decide if i want to firm it up at all. On the bench right now it has some decent action. Settles nice and low, tires fall away when you pick it up. So far im not getting the chassis slap but im also minus the ESC and motor and lipos. So time will tell.

im thinkin about doin this same thing. i have a regular slayer 3.3. im curious about the tranny....would the tranny from the nitro truck work? i was looking into buying an e revo chassis. i have a brushless setup waiting to go in something......im hoping to buy a chassis and swap most things over, just buy a motor mount and a few other things....

hmm..ok guess ill have to price that out. i heard the tekno coversion has a high center of gravity, so i figured going this route would solve that problem somewhat. ive had 2 nitro trucks, hated them both. ive considered selling my slayer, but i cant get it to start, so that would hurt a sale, and/or sale price. so ive been mulling over doing something like this to try and have a fun 4x4 electric truck.

when buying, make sure to look at the Emaxx BL trans as well for price. Same unit as the ERBE.

regarding the tekno conversion, if you mount the ESC on the provided mount it raises CG a bit more than you might like. But if you run motor braking you can make up a little pad to mount the ESC down low where the throttle/brake servo would have been.

This was my old revo conversion

Not sure how much of a difference it makes since the ESC isnt all that heavy, but it gets it out of the way in terms of being equally as high as the roll bar, potentially putting it in danger in a roll over.